An audience with Yves Perrier: ‘If Europe is stronger, Amundi is stronger’

The head of Europe’s largest investment manager opens up on job cuts, opportunities for the EU and staying on until 70

Amundi CEO Yves Perrier

By

Chris Newlands

July 17, 2017 Updated: July 18, 2017 11:14 a.m. GMT

It does not take long to find out what has been preoccupying Yves Perrier, the chief executive of Amundi, when he greets me after delivering his opening speech at the asset manager’s annual investment seminar in Paris.

“You could never conduct trade union negotiations in a room like this,” says the man who masterminded the French asset manager’s €3.5bn acquisition of rival Pioneer Investments, which was rubber stamped at the start of...